What is the Most Common Chronic Childhood Disease?
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What is the Most What is the Most Common Chronic Common Chronic
Childhood Childhood Disease?Disease?
Baby Teeth Are Baby Teeth Are Important!Important!
Prevent the Prevent the Spread of ToothSpread of Tooth
Decay in Decay in Babies and Babies and
Young ChildrenYoung Children
Children Need TheirChildren Need Their Baby Teeth to: Baby Teeth to:
Chew and digest foodChew and digest food Speak clearlySpeak clearly Smile and feel good Smile and feel good
about how they lookabout how they look Save room for their Save room for their
permanent teeth permanent teeth Last from 6 to 12 yearsLast from 6 to 12 years
What Causes Tooth Decay What Causes Tooth Decay in Babies and Young in Babies and Young
Children?Children? Sharing food and Sharing food and
eating utensils eating utensils
Sharing straws Sharing straws and cupsand cups
Cleaning off Cleaning off pacifier in your pacifier in your mouthmouth
Just a Just a Tiny DabTiny Dab of of Fluoride ToothpasteFluoride Toothpaste
(the size of a grain of rice)(the size of a grain of rice)
Only Only Milk Milk or or Water Water in in BottleBottle
Wean from Wean from Bottle Bottle by by One YearOne Year
Drink and Cook with Drink and Cook with Tap Water Tap Water
Tap Water Tap Water Contains Contains FluorideFluoride
Most Bottled Most Bottled Water Does Water Does NotNot
First Dental VisitFirst Dental VisitWhen the When the 1st teeth 1st teeth come in come in
Or before Or before age oneage one
Fluoride Varnish Protects Fluoride Varnish Protects Teeth From DecayTeeth From Decay
Easy and FastEasy and Fast Tastes GoodTastes Good PainlessPainless Can help Can help
reverse white reverse white spots so they spots so they do not become do not become cavitiescavities
Adapted from: “Preventing Baby Bottle Tooth
Decay” CA. Dept. of Health Services
and“Preventing the Spread of Tooth
Decay in Babies and Young Children”
Alameda County Health Department Office of Dental Health
(2003)by :
Linda Giordano Cannon, RDHAlameda County Health Department
Office of Dental Health(2009)